Death Foretold

Life is a near-death experience. - George Carlin

The death of a beloved is an amputation. - C S Lewis

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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates

Death is that after which nothing is of interest. - Rozinov

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W H Auden

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Danish Proverb

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

Drown in a vat of whiskey? Oh death, where is thy sting? - WC Fields

I know I can't cheat death, but I can cheat old age. - Darwin Deason

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. - Unknown

If we do not know about life, how can we know about death? - Confucius

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Gautama Siddharta

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. - Ambrose Bierce

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H.H. Munro

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. - Omar Brailey

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. - Pope John Paul II

A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude. - Ambrose Bierce

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

Never knock on death's door. Ring the bell and run away. Death hates that. - Matt Frewer

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. - Edward Abbey

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. - George Carlin

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. - Karen Russell

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving. - Anais Nin

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood

Death isn't the greatest loss in life. It's what dies inside of us while we live. - Amish Saying

You know that I'm at death's door. But the trouble is that I'm afraid to knock. - W Somerset Maugham

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

For death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? - I Corinthians 15:55

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? - Woody Allen

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question, "Is there life after death?" - Bette Midler

I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan

I can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquility will return again. - Anne Frank

Sir, your remarks are repugnant to me, and I disagree with your viewpoints. But I will defend to the death your right to express them. - Voltaire

'Till death do us part' doesn't sound so horrible. It only means about 10 or 15 years and not the eternity it used to mean. - Joy Behar